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1. A Christmas Songbook: Three Log Night Now you can own a collection of holiday music you don't often hear; this book is a compilation of my favorite non-standard Christmas and Hannukah songs - by which I mean, not the top fifteen Christmas tunes that cycle endlessly through the mistle-toe...
2. The TJC Hanukah Songbook I was music director for the "Cantor Corps" at Temple Judea Reform in Durham and directed the Triangle Jewish Chorale for fourteen years. Before that, I directed a group called the Solstice Assembly which put on many winter shows incorporat...
3. I love Yiddish music! First, I fell in love with Yiddish folk and theater songs I've been singing music in Yiddish since the early 1980s, when I heard one of the first concerts given at the New England Conservatory by Hankus Netsky and his Klezmer Conservatory Band. ...
4. Seven ways to cook eggplant: a Sephardic song and sephardic recipes I'm a wedding musician and we often play for Jewish weddings. One time a bride asked us: "Could you sing some Sephardic songs, but I don't like the sad ones." Hmmph! Most Sephardic songs I know are sad. So I did some research and still didn't come u...
5. Renaissance wedding music Welcome to the Wedding Music in North Carolina "Olde Music" Department! A course called Medieval Music: Performance Practice which I took at Yale with Professor Alejandro Planchardt really inspired my love of early music. Almost a decade directing...
6. Pete Seeger - The Power of Song Pete Seeger has sung for peace and justice for generations. Now there is a documentary of Pete Seeger's life entitled Pete Seeger - The Power of Song it has been shown on PBS and at Film festivals from Oklahoma to Vermont. Pete Seeger sang at Barack...
7. The Laduvane Songbook - Balkan singing for everybody This songbook was published by the a cappella Balkan ensemble Laduvane in 1977, after we'd made our first recording. It's amazing the difference one person can make. Recently a woman named Chris emailed me and said she'd lost her original copy of th...
8. Lamkin, a musical news flash of the 16th century: artisan gets stiffed, gets even. Over the years a lot of people have asked me where my bands (the Pratie Heads and Mappamundi) get new material, and how we get it concert-ready. In this lens I can give you an example of how I arrange a complicated song. I fell in love with "Lamkin...
9. Tumbleweed Music Festival | Three Rivers Folklife Society | Richland Washington | Howard Amon Park Each year, beginning in 1997, Three Rivers Folklife Society (3RFS) has sponsored Tumbleweed Music Festival and Songwriting Contest in Richland, WA, on Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend. This is the eleventh year!
10. Music for Jewish chorales: The Triangle Jewish Chorale Songbook My boss, Gayla Halbrecht, says it was 1994 when I took up the job of conducting our chorus; that means I spent  fourteen years at the helm. I love the people in the group very much, and I love the music. This lens showcases the songbook I put t...
11. The Yale Women's Slavic Chorus: an appreciation This young woman is Corrinne Sykes, the conductor of the Yale Slavic chorus in 2009 when a great many of us Slavic Chorus alumna gathered in New Haven CT for a reunion concert celebrating forty years of Slavic singing at Yale. This lens is going to t...
12. Resophonic Guitar, Dobro, and the Slide Guitar Blues, Country, Rock, Bluegrass, Folk. They all have benefited from the unique sound of the resophonic guitar, also called the resonator guitar. Some of the most famous brand names of these instruments are Dobro, owned by Gibson National Regal Bear...
13. Skylark Productions: folk and traditional cds and songbooks Skylark Productions was begun by Pat Sky when he was making field recordings of fiddlers and Irish pipers and whistle players in Ireland. (This was his logo.) He made quite a few well-regarded cassettes (yes, cassettes) but later lost interest and ga...
14. Schwyzerörgeli Music In Switzerland, young players of the traditional Schwyzeroergeli are now using the internet to showcase their music. The few examples here are but the point of the 'iceberg'. If you go out and search, you'll find many more of these great short music...
15. The Laily Worm and other evil stepmother stories This peculiar ballad was collected by Francis James Child and was published in his compendium called The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in 1802. He wrote: There is only one version of this ballad, which was recorded in the north of...
16. North Carolina wedding musicians: live music is best! My two bands play for weddings in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and people always love the live music. But I see, because my daughter is getting married next year and sends me links to various wedding blogs, that tips for economizing...
17. Hurricane Fran: "That was a dreadful night" and other disaster ballads Eight trees fell on my house in 1996 when Hurricane Fran swept through Chapel Hill, NC. They crushed the roof, a tremendous amount of water poured into the house, and I had to deal with it as a single mom. It was a crazy experience, and maybe the odd...
18. Celtic wedding music "Celtic music" is an umbrella term used for instrumentals rooted in country dance styles which can range from Irish step dancing to Scottish country dancing and strathspeys; many people even include the English Playford country dances in th...
19. Joan Baez There aren't many in showbiz like Baez. Forty years ago she was the dorky folk singer with the pure voice and the severe expression who, through sheer force of sincerity, won out as the symbol of her generation over hipper rivals. By her own admissio...
20. The Dirndl - traditional maid dress in Bavaria and Austria Ever been on the Oktoberfest? Ok - HE has got his Lederhose. But what about HER? All about the Dirndl - and why it is more than prettying up the girls there ...